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DD-LIST(1) General Commands Manual DD-LIST(1)

NAME

dd-list - nicely list .deb packages and their maintainers

SYNOPSIS

dd-list [-hiusV] [--help] [--stdin] [--sources Sources_file] [--dctrl] [--version] [--uploaders] [package ...]

DESCRIPTION

dd-list produces nicely formatted lists of Debian (.deb) packages and their maintainers.

Input is a list of source or binary package names on the command line (or the standard input if --stdin is given). Output is a list of the following format, where package names are source packages by default:

J. Random Developer <jrandom@debian.org>
j-random-package
j-random-other
Diana Hacker <diana@example.org>
fun-package
more-fun-package


This is useful when you want, for example, to produce a list of
    packages that need to attention from their maintainers, e.g., to be rebuilt
    when a library version transition happens.






OPTIONS



  

  
Print brief help message.

  

  
Read package names from the standard input, instead of taking them from
      the command line. Package names are whitespace delimited.

  

  
Read package list from standard input in the format of a Debian package
      control file. This includes the status file, or output of apt-cache. This
      is the fastest way to use dd-list, as it uses the maintainer information
      from the input instead of looking up the maintainer of each listed
      package.





  

  
If no Source: line is given, the Package: name is used for
      output, which might be a binary package name.





  

  
Try to uncompress the --dctrl input before parsing. Supported compression
      formats are gz, bzip2 or xz.

  

  
Read package information from the specified Sources_files. This can
      be given multiple times. The files can be gz, bzip2 or xz compressed. If
      the filename does not end in .gz, .bz2 or .xz, then
      the -z option must be used.





  

  
If no Sources_files are specified, dd-list will ask apt-get for an
      appropriate set of sources (if apt is at version greater than
      1.1.8), else any files matching /var/lib/apt/lists/*_source_Sources
      will be used.





  

  
Also list developers who are named as uploaders of packages, not only the
      maintainers; this is the default behaviour, use --nouploaders to prevent
      it. Uploaders are indicated with "(U)" appended to the package
      name.

  

  
Only list package Maintainers, do not list Uploaders.

  

  
Use binary package names in the output instead of source package names
      (has no effect with --dctrl if the Package: line contains
      source package names).

  

  
Print the version.








AUTHOR


Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>


Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>







  

    2011-10-27
    Debian